'The TERRIFYING bacteria I picked up in the jungle': Adam brought back a tropical disease from the Colombian swamps

It’s the souvenir you don’t want — a holiday illness no one can diagnose or treat. That’s where the Hospital for Tropical Diseases can help, as this series reveals.
Adam Millward, 29, tells DIANA PILKINGTON his story.
The day after his work summer party last year, Adam Millward woke up drained of energy and with a pounding headache.
‘I knew it wasn’t just a hangover,’ says the 29-year-old from London.
‘But I put it down to too much sun — we’d spent several hours on a roof terrace on a boiling June day.’
Adam, an editor at Guinness World Records, dragged himself to work but the following... read more

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